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PHall | May 11, 2014
Both Joseph and Daniel teach us how to become successful. While we might want to point out their tenacity, don’t give up drive, intelligence, and unwillingness to take no for an answer, that is not how they succeeded. Here you go; make sure you right this down: First, become a slave of a foreign nation. […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
The qualifications of elders is often controversial because we approach it as a cold list instead of as a life lived and learned. Let me demonstrate the difference. Must all of the elder’s children be faithful? That seems to be one of the eternal questions. First, ask yourself what is the purpose of the qualification. […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
Saddleback’s Ten Commandments: 1. Thou shalt not go to lunch alone with the opposite sex. 2. Thou shalt not have the opposite sex pick you up or drive you places when it is just the two of you. 3. Thou shalt not kiss any attendee of the opposite sex or show affection that could be […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
“Victimless crimes” are illegal acts to which all consent and none are injured. Or so they claim. Poker for example; and admittedly no party is injured…if all the parties can afford to lose. Software piracy is another example; it is easier on the conscience to steal from someone as distant as the internet makes people […]
PHall | May 9, 2014
Cain dismissively answers God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain is sarcastically saying he isn’t responsible for Abel; he isn’t Abel’s baby sitter, although many years ago he might have been as the older brother. Such an attitude cautions us on how we answer and treat one another. In Iain Provan’s Seriously Dangerous Religion, he […]
PHall | May 6, 2014
Do you find it easier to give gifts, or to receive them? Personally, I like to give them…and I don’t mind receiving them either! If I had to choose one, it would be to give, except in the spiritual realm. I know that I unless I receive, I cannot give. Without God, I have nothing, […]
PHall | May 6, 2014
A Template for Fellowship – “To be saved hear, believe, repent, confess and be baptized; then keep confessing, keep repenting, keep believing, and keep hearing to stay saved.” This chiasm is simple, and yet it might help us solve something so many find complicated – fellowship. “Who Can We Fellowship?” should be as simple as […]
PHall | May 6, 2014
Man loves religious titles. Just saw last week a new one for me, “Boss Lady.” Jesus warned about religious titles (Matt.23:7-10), and man keeps inventing new ones. I don’t call anyone Reverend, and I challenge all to obey Jesus in not giving religious titles to anyone. We are all brothers, Jesus said. Today calling a […]
PHall | May 6, 2014
To be saved hear, believe, repent, confess and be baptized; then keep confessing, keep repenting, keep believing, and keep hearing to stay saved.